First! Kate for PM!!!

PS: I have a fully-auto unregistered 22 rifle, so I don't need this tiny cannon.

Would you need to register it?

Great camera trick. Calculate the powder load, and call me in the morning.

My god, the office possibilities... that is, until the Liberals create a registry.

I wonder if this thing qualifies as a prohibited firearm?

Great for those rainy day do nothing afternoons.
Does it have to be registered as a 'long gun'.

I built a couple of desktop cannons when I was a teenager only they were no where near as powerful.

When CFC sees that video? It will become a prohibited weapon on the FaRT table.

Guaranteed.

I enjoyed this exhibition until they destroyed a full bottle of Smirnoff. Then I cried.

I'd never cost more than a couple of million to register all those cannons. I liked the comment on David Thompson's site from someone wanting this mounted on their wedding ring. nice.

I need one of those. I want one of those in a way I haven't wanted anything since I was a small boy. Where do I get one?

Call me crazy. I want one of those. NOW.

Don't let Nancy Pelosi (let alone Iffy) anywhere near one!

Hmmmmm.

Ignition source on the balloon? Tracer BBs?

Stick one up fat Gore's A$$ and 'canonize' him Saint-Al, prophet of scam...Oh wait, the crazed sex poodle might actually enjoy it....Never mind.

Unfortunately,this is the future weapon of the Canadian Artillery Corps.

Gotta keep those costs down!

And Roger, the RCMP and CSIS will drop everything they're doing right now to try and find out who you are. Fortunately, we here at SDA know you don't have a fully automatic .22,as that would be un-Canadian!

No it wouldn't dmorris. What calibre do think the service rifle is? .223 is close enough to .22 to count.....LOL

Yep. Prohibited.

Drooooooooooooool.

seriously cool - but not sure as to the wisdom of shooting a can of beer...

Not the Vodka! Noooooooooooo!

At Mice From Men.

wow. good aim. how many misses were there compiling the vid?

Something is wrong here.

As Jim alludes, the gas balloon required a source of ignition. That alone puts a lie to the "no tricks" claim.

Part One shows very loose-fitting ammo in the overly short barrel. No wadding was used. Accuracy should be very poor, unlike the pattern shown in the video. Historically, that type of cannon (the big version) was mostly used like a big shotgun. The ammo was often just mixed scrap metal, quite effective on advancing troop formations.

The propellant charge shown is described as gunpowder, That's suspicious, too.

I've got other doubts, but you guys get the idea.

And I'm the last one to purport some of "expert" status

"Balloon filled with special explosive gas." Whatever that is.

Very cool little toy.

Perfect for getting rid of the annoying deer.

Boys and their toys... in my day that would have made a good "How-to" article in Popular Mechanics but these days I'm sure PM is pc, or at least their lawyers would be.

Made in shop class? Either that or it's coming up on Engineering Week.

Sadly, according to the law this would be considered a prohibted weapon because its barrel length is to short (no jokes about prohibiting liberals on the basis of their short barrels please).
However it should be noted that a gun is not some new technology...they can be easilt manufactured in a home workshop. There are designs on the net for evrything from .50 BMG sniper rifles to fully auto 9mm assault rifles. When the libs fully ban guns, as I susspect they will, homemade guns will be a cottage industry in Canada.

For a projectile launcher to qualify as a firearm, the projectile must reach or exceed 500 ft/second.

Short barreled cannon with that sort of configuration used to be called mortars and fired bombs* that had fuses.

*bombs that looked like Mohammed's turban in the cartoon

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Giving this to the office crowd, is like allowing toddlers to play with nukes.
They blow-ed up real good.
Love it!!!!!

I smell a large rodent. Too powerful and far, far too accurate for the design. A nice toy though.

I smell a large rodent. Too powerful and far, far too accurate for the design. A nice toy though.

i believe the last balloon was filled with what is known in my world as "The Morning After Friday Night Burritos" gas. Trust me, it's feasible.

This is so easy to to make.

You could make that on a mini-lathe in a evening.

On the only challenge would be to make it so it doesn't blow up and frankly with that little black powder and a brass body that would trvial to over engineer so that even if you plugged the outlet and it vented through the fuse hole it would not go all "grenade" on you.

That being said, if you aren't using serious eye and ear shielding near that, you are a cretin.

For the full sized version look up "carronade", the 18th century Royal Navy shipped a few on seemingly every ship, used like a shotgun and at close naval ranges ( back when "close naval engagement" meant ships shooting at each other from zero to 100 yards distance) it was AWESOME at ripping up rigging, sails, and anybody not cowering behind the oak hull of a ship of the line

( and that's why you had the 24+ lb long guns down below - to deal with hulls)

Carronades wielded with bravery would turn an enemy boarding action into "instant slaughterhouse" that would make your basic modern blood and guts horror movie seem like a Walt Disney Musical.

I've never understood 18th century naval combat, you read the descriptions of carnage ( and remember if you survived the actual battle, you had to survive the surgeons too. Good luck.) and you deeply wonder how the heck they managed to find enough crews ( I know, press gangs etc.. but still you need hundreds of men, per ship, on a much smaller population base.)

You'll put your eye out...